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Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history. Twenty years ago, suddenly and improbably, it fell into its death throes.
The end began the night of Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was opened, allowing East Germans to leave the prison that constituted their country. Throughout Eastern Europe, one Communist regime after another disintegrated. Within two years, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was not only out of power but banned by law. A system soaked in the...
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His Waterloo the Army Hearings and the famous line by the Army's lawyer, Welch of "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Soon after the censor by the Senate and even conservatives like Buckley left him as going over the edge, he died a broken man as he should have.
Not someone you should hoist up as a role model or a hero--he was neither. Of course, nuts like Ann Coulter...well consider the source.